Commercial Risk Asia Media Pack—2015/16

2015 /16

MEDIA INFORMATION

RUBICON MEDIA LTD. supported by

RUBICON MEDIA Rubicon Media, publishers of Commercial Risk Europe, Commercial Risk Africa and International Programme News, is proud to announce the launch of its latest publication Commercial Risk Asia, the natural next step in Rubicon Media’s mission to provide the very best risk and insurance management news for large corporates as the operate and expand globally.

The launch will take place at the 2015 annual Pan Asia Risk and Insurance Management Association [PARIMA] conference in Singapore November 16 and 17.

Commercial Risk Europe [CRE] has been involved with PARIMA, the Pan-Asia Risk & Insurance Management Association from the start, editorial director Adrian Ladbury was invited to host the main debate at the inaugural PARIMA meeting in Singapore in 2014.

The positive feedback from the risk managers, insurers, brokers and other service providers confirmed the important role PARIMA can play in providing individual risk managers across the region with a central focal point for the fast-developing profession, a networking opportunity to share experience and expertise, education and ultimately a lobbying platform.

Rubicon Media was delighted to be involved in the launch of this association and it is a natural evolution for us as we expand our publishing activity worldwide.

The time is now right for us to bring the same editorial focus and integrity to the pan-Asian region.

PARIMA fully endorses the launch of the publication and is delighted that a professional publishing company, focused on the corporate risk and insurance market, will provide its fast growing membership with the news, views and analysis needed to help establish this profession in the region.

Commercial Risk Asia will be a monthly electronic newspaper designed to meet the information needs of the Asian corporate risk and insurance management community and the insurance market that supports it.

The regular monthly electronic publication will be supplemented by hard copy editions that will be distributed at key regional industry events such as the PARIMA annual conference in November.

The publication will initially be distributed to up to 1,000 corporate risk managers in Asia and some 1,500 brokers, insurers and specialist service providers that serve this fast-growing market.

PARIMA’s 500 members will all receive the publication and we will work hard with PARIMA to ensure that it meets the information needs of the association’s membership.

Commercial Risk Asia will also be offered to the existing readers of Commercial Risk Europe, Commercial Risk Africa and International Programme News, many of whom have growing operations in Asia and need to keep abreast of the latest news, views and developments in this critical region of the world.

The launch issue will therefore be distributed to over 12,000 risk and insurance industry professionals in Asia and the international risk and insurance management market.

http://www.commercialriskasia.com

THE CONTENT PARIMA’s goal is to promote the risk and insurance management profession in Asia and support the development of the profession in the region through education and networking at its fast rising number of events throughout the region.

It also provides risk and insurance managers with a representative group that can protect and enhance the interests of the profession at industry, regulatory and government levels.

Commercial Risk Asia will support these goals by delivering PARIMA members and the wider risk and insurance management community with a dedicated platform through which news, views and the latest products and services critical to the development of this market will be disseminated. The editorial coverage will take care to properly reflect and be relevant to the different regional communities.

Commercial Risk Asia will follow exactly the same editorial philosophy as Commercial Risk Europe and Commercial Risk Africa.

We will report the news of significance and relevance to corporate risk and insurance managers with Asia’s leading corporations.

We will actively engage with PARIMA and the wider Asian risk and insurance management community to find out what really matters to them and help them find the best risk management and transfer solutions by challenging experts in the field to come up with solutions.

The publication will be funded by advertising, subscriptions and sponsorship revenue from the leading insurance market players in the Asian market. We will work with these companies on a mature and responsible basis to help deliver the best information possible for our readers using the skills and knowledge of our highly experienced editorial team.

Importantly Commercial Risk Asia will be fiercely editorially independent. We will not publish contributed articles and we will not shy away from challenging service providers to respond to demands of their clients.

This is crucial as any publication that is deemed to be ‘in the hands’ of its advertisers has a limited future as readers quickly recognize when content is influenced by commercial interests and rapidly stop reading and engaging.

Commercial Risk Asia intends to be a long-term partner of the wider Asian risk management community and so will not sway from its editorially independent stance.

Each issue will contain: n Breaking news n M acro-economic, financial and political news from the region that will significantly affect the risk profile of the region n T he latest regulatory, fiscal, corporate governance, legal and legislative initiatives that will directly affect the risk profile and reporting requirements of Asian companies n A nalysis of relevant research and analysis on risks and how best to identify, measure and manage them. n O pinion from industry leaders and representative associations about how the risk and insurance market could and should work more effectively n C ONFERENCE NEWS—Commercial Risk Asia will attend and report upon the major industry events in the region n A SSOCIATION NEWS—Latest news about the profession such as new educational initiatives and views from leading risk managers about how to best perform the role.

This will include a regular monthly column from/interview with PARIMA President Franck Baron n L INES OF BUSINESS—In-depth news and analysis of the price and availability of insurance coverage in the key corporate insurance lines of business from Asian and international insurance and reinsurance markets. These reports will have a specific focus on specialty markets such as marine, aviation, energy, political risk and financial lines n F INANCIAL NEWS—Analysis of leading Asian insurance company results, credit ratings and solvency/security of carriers n S UPERVISORY UPDATE—News of changes in the insurance rules that govern the way that coverage is bought in territories across the region, including mandatory cessions, fronting rules and tax implications for the use of regional and global programmes n N ATIONAL REPORT—Each issue will carry an in-depth report on one territory in the region. Local and international risk managers active in this territory will explain the major risks faced in this market. The report will also focus on the state and health of the local insurance market, insurance rules that companies that are active in that country must comply with and the main corporate governance and reporting rules

n R ISK MANAGER PROFILE—Interview with leading Asian risk manager about their career, risk and insurance management philosophy, how they would like to see the profession improve and raise its profile and how they would like key service providers such as insurers and brokers to improve service n H OT SEAT—Interview with leading service provider about their strategy for the corporate risk market in Asia and how they intend to grow their business and improve services for customers

LAUNCH SCHEDULE Commercial Risk Asia will be formally launched on November 16 at the PARIMA conference in Singapore.

Adrian Ladbury, Editorial Director of Rubicon Media and launch Editor of Commercial Risk Asia, will announce the new publication at the conference.

Adrian will be launch Editor and hand over to a new editor when the publication is established.

This will be made possible by the appointment of a new Editor for Commercial Risk Europe that is now in its fifth year of publication and firmly established.

The appointment of this key individual will free up Adrian to focus on the new publication.

All delegates at the PARIMA conference will receive a hard copy issue published in the same style and size as Commercial Risk Europe.

The rest of the Asian and international readership will receive their first issue in electronic newsletter format by email that day.

The readership will receive daily news from the PARIMA conference on both November 16th and November 17th. This will be written by Adrian and Deputy Editor, Ben Norris, who will also attend the PARIMA event.

The second issue of Commercial Risk Asia (December/January edition) will comprise mainly of an in-depth report from the PARIMA conference including follow up interviews and feedback and reaction to the event and discussion with members carried out by the Commercial Risk Asia team.

2015/16 EDITORIAL calendar n

November 2015— launch issue

2016 n

December 2015/January 2016

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

n

July/August

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September

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October

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November

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December/January 2017

ADVERTISING RATES & SPECIAL SPONSORSHIP PACKAGES 2015/2016 ADVERTISING RATES FREQUENCY:

1X 3X 5X 7X

PAGE

£2,300

JUNIOR PAGE

£1,610 £1,365 £1,190 £1,050

1⁄2 PAGE

£1,250

¼ PAGE

£1,950

£975

£1,700

£775

£1,500

£675

£700 £570 £470 £370

* All rates are quoted as gross

SPECIAL SERIES PACKAGES OPTION 1—FULL-PAGE ADVERTS n Full-page advertising spot inside each print and digital newsletter from November 2015 to December 2016 n * Logo on the monthly Commercial Risk Asia email under the heading ‘Sponsored by’ n * ROS banners (three positions) on the pages of www.commercialriskasia.com (*Banners on the website only available to companies that advertise throughout the year)

Full-page adverts in the following issues of Commercial Risk Asia in 2015/2016 Full-page adverts in the following issues of Commercial Risk Asia in 2015/2016 2015 Nov

- £954 gross

2016 Feb

- £954 gross

March

- £954 gross

April

- £954 gross

May

- £954 gross

June

- £954 gross

July/August

- £954 gross

Sept

- £954 gross

Oct

- £954 gross

Nov

- £954 gross

Dec/Jan

- £954 gross

Total investment

- £10,494 gross

Number of issues = 10 digital issues [At least 3 of these will also be distributed in hard copy]

SPECIAL SERIES PACKAGES continued...

OPTION 2—HALF-PAGE ADVERTS

n Half-page advertising spot all of the ten print and digital newsletter from February 2015 to December 2015

n * Logo on the monthly Commercial Risk Asia email under the heading ‘Sponsored by’ n * ROS banners (three positions) on the pages of www.commercialriskasia.com Half-page adverts in the following issues of Commercial Risk Asia in 2015/2016 2015 Nov - £675 gross 2016 Feb

- £675 gross

March

- £675 gross

April

- £675 gross

May

- £675 gross

June

- £675 gross

July/August

- £675 gross

Sept

- £675 gross

Oct

- £675 gross

Nov

- £675 gross

Dec/Jan

- £675 gross

Total investment

- £7,425 gross

Number of issues = 10 digital issues [At least 3 of these will also be distributed in hard copy]

OPTION 3—LEAD SPONSOR Lead sponsor of the monthly (2015 launch issue + 10 in 2016) E-newsletter with exclusive use of the top leader board banner position on all Commercial Risk Asia email activity and the front cover strip advert position and a full page advert in the monthly PDF for 2015/2016.

2015 November launch issue of Commercial Risk Asia

n Leader board banner advertisement on the email n Strip advertisement on the front cover of the printed launch issue n Full-page advertisement on the back cover of the printed launch issue

2016 monthly (10 issues) Commercial Risk Asia digital newsletter For each monthly e-newsletter the lead sponsor will have the following advertising inventory: n Leader board banner advertisement n Strip advertisement on the front cover n Full page advertisement on the inside pages (position to be agreed) The exact publishing dates for the 2016 issues will be confirmed in early December 2016.

We will publish hard copy versions of Commercial Risk Asia for the PARIMA annual conference and for at least two other key 2016 risk and insurance management meeting in the region [details TBC] Commercial Risk Asia website As part of the overall package deal the lead sponsor will also have banners on the home page for Commercial Risk ASIA where more regular updates and background data and research on this market issues will be hosted.

Lead sponsorship investment for Commercial Risk Asia

GBP ÂŁ26,000

For more information please contacts:

Hugo Foster

Publishing Director Rubicon Media Ltd

hfoster@commercialriskasia.com

RUBICON MEDIA

CORE TEAM ADRIAN LADBURY

Editorial Director

aladbury@commercialriskeurope.com

BEN NORRIS Managing Editor bnorris@commercialriskeurope.com

LIZ BOOTH Editor, CRA lizbooth@commercialriskafrica.com

TONY DOWDING

Editor, IPN

tonydowding@blueyonder.co.uk

HUGO FOSTER Publishing Director hfoster@commercialriskasia.com t: +44 (0) 1892 785 176 m: +44 (0) 7894 718 724

ALAN BOOTH Art Director abooth@commercialriskeurope.com

ANNABEL WHITE Events Manager awhite@commercialriskeurope.com

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